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send her and more female democrats to washington. one of today's headliners is texas state senator wendy davis who is filibuster made her a national name and landed her a profile in the september issue of "vogue" magazine. another headliner joins me now is sandra fluke and morgan fairchild. >> good morning. >> the first six months of the year for female candidates and i know you're speaking at this event in san francisco. what is your message? >> we are talking about how far we still have to go but how important it is that we get there on electing more women at the federal level, at the state level, at the local level and what a difference that makes to small girls to be able to see women in office. >> we have had conversations on this program. we have had women senators here who have talked about how different the dynamic is in a room when they are women in a meeting as opposed to men. what is your big picture here? >> i think if we truly want to have a democracy we have to make sure our government looks like our population. and rig
send her and more female democrats to washington. one of today's headliners is texas state senator wendy davis who is filibuster made her a national name and landed her a profile in the september issue of "vogue" magazine. another headliner joins me now is sandra fluke and morgan fairchild. >> good morning. >> the first six months of the year for female candidates and i know you're speaking at this event in san francisco. what is your message? >> we are talking about...
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. >> how much of this is tied, do you think, to what has been going on in washington? i'm talking about the highly charged political nature of our congress. peter, you have been critical of the president's handling of the economy but you've also taken republicans to task as well. what needs to be done here? >> i think they need to get together and look at some of the structural problems that emerged during the bush years that have not yet been addressed such as the continuing to grow trade deficit with china and we are developing oil on shore, on private lands but we are not developing oil offshore in nearly as much as we could. we could probably be oil independent within five years if we chose to be. mr. obama has targeted a lot of places where regulation needs to be improved but he has done it in very expensive ways and ways that create other distortions. the large banks, for example, have consolidated and monopolized markets in smaller cities and so forth and businesses aren't getting the loans they need. i could go on but that is the general theme. >> peter didn't
. >> how much of this is tied, do you think, to what has been going on in washington? i'm talking about the highly charged political nature of our congress. peter, you have been critical of the president's handling of the economy but you've also taken republicans to task as well. what needs to be done here? >> i think they need to get together and look at some of the structural problems that emerged during the bush years that have not yet been addressed such as the continuing to...
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economy is getting better and i want to do hors to help the middle class but, man, a tough climate in washington to get things done these days. >> i want you both to hold on. i want to bring in a democrat from south carolina. james clyburn. good to see you. good morning. >> thank you for having me. good morning. >> i know you've been listening to the conversation susan page talking about how tough the climate is the president going to face when he gets back from martha's vineyard. how tough it is? >> it is pretty tough. we are -- seem to have a disconnect between the house and the senate. there seems to be a disconnect between the congress and the american people. and there seems to be some skisisms within the republican party itself. speaker boehner is having tremendous difficult to try to coalesce around any kind of legislation that will satisfy the majority of the people within this caucus. so that makes it very, very hard to get anything done. before we can think about all of the things that we have to do going forward, the budget and what the president is proposing, the national security is
economy is getting better and i want to do hors to help the middle class but, man, a tough climate in washington to get things done these days. >> i want you both to hold on. i want to bring in a democrat from south carolina. james clyburn. good to see you. good morning. >> thank you for having me. good morning. >> i know you've been listening to the conversation susan page talking about how tough the climate is the president going to face when he gets back from martha's...
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i want to bring in "the new york times" political reporter nick and senior washington correspondent anna palmer. nick, start with you. nbc's kasie hunt confirming that the white house is saying at the moment they have no definitive decision about aid to egypt. what do you know about this? which is it? >> you have this wrinkle, right? which is the next aid is not actually due for a few more weeks. so they can be holding it without any practical impact. it seems to me like a behind the scenes signal there to the regime to back off and allow some frerm. the truth is this whole package a military aid has not been used feven effectively. >> a new poll showing 51% of the people think we should cut off aid to egypt and 50% saying obama has not been tough enough to egyptian military. does that influence in the white house when it comes to a decision like this? >> i think this is something that is happening behind the scenes. they have been negotiating it with other countries for weeks. there's a real division in congress. you have some republican hawks saying that it aid needs to be cut off but
i want to bring in "the new york times" political reporter nick and senior washington correspondent anna palmer. nick, start with you. nbc's kasie hunt confirming that the white house is saying at the moment they have no definitive decision about aid to egypt. what do you know about this? which is it? >> you have this wrinkle, right? which is the next aid is not actually due for a few more weeks. so they can be holding it without any practical impact. it seems to me like a...
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republicans have spent the summer threatening a government shutdown when they go back to washington. 80 of the most conservative house republicans have sent a letter to speaker boehner urging him to defund obama care. which, in the process, could bring the wheels of government to a screeching halt. >> and then, finally, now what we have got is republicans talking about the idea that they would shut down the government, bad for the economy, bad for not just people who work for the government, but all of the contractors who -- and the defense folks and everybody who is impacted by the services that they receive from the federal government, we should shut that down because republicans after having taken 40 votes to try to get rid of obama care see this as their last gasp. >> now a few republicans are even going a step further. past shutting the government down and defunding obama care. they are talking about impeachment. here is senator tom coburn at a town hall meeting this week. >> those are serious things but we are at a serious time and i don't have the legal background to know if t
republicans have spent the summer threatening a government shutdown when they go back to washington. 80 of the most conservative house republicans have sent a letter to speaker boehner urging him to defund obama care. which, in the process, could bring the wheels of government to a screeching halt. >> and then, finally, now what we have got is republicans talking about the idea that they would shut down the government, bad for the economy, bad for not just people who work for the...
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in this environment in washington, d.c. you can see where the american voters are here trying to get more women elected into office. >> i'm sure you have watched with interest. also on cnn. here's what was said this morning on joez "morning joe." >> i cannot have companies in the business of making what i consider to be promotional movies about the life of oh hillary clinton when at the same time we know that her people are gearing up for a presidential run. then i'm going to bring them in to depose the candidates running for president on the republican side of the aisle? >> is there a fairness issue here, as you see it? >> i just disagree. hillary clinton has done so much for the country. it's a great opportunity to share what a really leading stateswoman has done for the united states. >> so chris christie or rand paul. >> or cruz or santorum. we'll see a lot of documentaries, news stories, all kinds of things in the months to come. that's the way the system works now. it's good. let's talk to the american people about wh
in this environment in washington, d.c. you can see where the american voters are here trying to get more women elected into office. >> i'm sure you have watched with interest. also on cnn. here's what was said this morning on joez "morning joe." >> i cannot have companies in the business of making what i consider to be promotional movies about the life of oh hillary clinton when at the same time we know that her people are gearing up for a presidential run. then i'm going...
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i'm thomas roberts. >>> developing news from washington. cold war rerack? president obama canceling his face-to-face meeting with russian president vladimir putin scheduled to take place next month at the g-20 in st. petersburg and move comes after russian authorities granted temporary asylum to nsa leaker edward snowden. it comes this after the president said this last noit in an interview with jay leno. >> i was disappointed because, you know, even though with we don't have an extradition treaty with them. they still help us on supplying our troops in afghanistan and still helping us on counterterrorism work and they were helpful after the boston bombing but there have been times where they slip back in the cold war thinking and a cold war mentality. >> kristen welker joining me from the white house. some peopleld
i'm thomas roberts. >>> developing news from washington. cold war rerack? president obama canceling his face-to-face meeting with russian president vladimir putin scheduled to take place next month at the g-20 in st. petersburg and move comes after russian authorities granted temporary asylum to nsa leaker edward snowden. it comes this after the president said this last noit in an interview with jay leno. >> i was disappointed because, you know, even though with we don't have an...
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here's how the washington post put it. rarely has the appointment of a new fed chairman been accompanied by so much commotion penetrating even the political dead zone of mid august. the opposing camps have waged high-profile media campaigns featuring dueling op-eds. to talk about we have jared bernste bernstein, and cnbc contributor ron ensana. good to see both of you. >> good morning. >> all of this politicking, the fed's supposed to be apolitical, the white house doesn't like the vetting process to be public. why, jared, has this gotten so wild? >> well, i'm sure from the white house perspective, that's a great question. this is not at all the fight they want to have right now. i think it's gotten wild because the president himself came out fairly strongly suggesting even though it's not been completely -- we know it's going to happen, that bernanke will be leaving his post at the end of this year. so, of course, that opens things up and the next thing you know you've got the two front runners and we do have a frenzy tha
here's how the washington post put it. rarely has the appointment of a new fed chairman been accompanied by so much commotion penetrating even the political dead zone of mid august. the opposing camps have waged high-profile media campaigns featuring dueling op-eds. to talk about we have jared bernste bernstein, and cnbc contributor ron ensana. good to see both of you. >> good morning. >> all of this politicking, the fed's supposed to be apolitical, the white house doesn't like the...